A MURDEROUS SAVAGE.

Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 75, 29 September 1880, Page 2

A MURDEROUS SAVAGE.

ATrcKLA.N»,7Monday midnight. At 10 o'clock to night a -'-Fijian att*inpte§^ to murder with an; .axe, two sons of MJe^ Edward Thomas "VyTicpt^.l^ged. 11 and .14, years. Wilcott lately arrived . -from ' Fiji,* , and the Fijian had been m his service seVen^ •years. The youngest ladi" G-ibson; Wilcott,received a dangerors gash 4 inches m lengthextending from his tempi* to the crown of? his head;. 'and; tb* -Qthj_r lad was, struck a* blow on the neck and on the., face \--ii-h. the*, axe, but not' dangerously, and another, lad, named Sandry and the servant girl attempted to stop the ruffian while decamping, when the alarm ' -was •given. j l . -but h* v , threatened Sandry, with the weapon and 1 threw a brick-ak thf;h^dtof;th»:girlv which, fortunately, missed heiv He., then fled, * retaining possession of the. aie,. and; has not been captured by the police. There aire no* . hopes, o.f the youngest lad surviving. AnokLAND, Tuesday night. After the murderous assault on th* two children last night by th* Fijian, th* polic*. • sta^teii, m pursuit, ;Sjub-inspjctor Pardyj taking charge "of the mounted men and f scouring the district,. *irhile jth* superintendent took charge of the rni^n on foot anctaurrounded the Cemetery m which ■■ih«\ Fijian was supposed to be. secreted, but the. surmise, however, proy* d ineojrecfc. Information, waa^ opined that "the* Rjian waa, seen at eleyei^ p?clock^pa*9isg th-^den Vine' Hotel, going aw^ifrota tcfrrh: ' * This morning liEithew Crawford^ residing near. Mount Albert, V%ind: th% body qt a man. •lying on the rojid lome diatanc* from th*. _|!d*a Vine Hotel, with a clean cnt on thex back of his skull, about an inch m width which must hay*. proved fo be -instotani.' eously fats^l. The milkman -repoßted thfc matter to. th*.

the name of th* murdered man was 'AAward Bace, who resided with his wife and family on the New North Road, nearMorningside. It is surmised that last night lie and the Fijian must have encountered each other, and the Fijian must have crept noiselessly behind him, and dealt him the fatal blow from behind. This morning the murderous ats-undrel made hia appearance m tae Mou.X- Albert District, and the news was receives* that nfter felling a washerwoman, near the house of Mr. Melville, manager for Brown land Campbell, and breaking her arm, the Fijian made off, hotly pursued, but was event uilly captured. , The murderous ruffian is a native of Api, one of the New Hebrides tribe}, and one of the most savage races m the South Sea Island!.- Ho asked the people where he was stopping to buy him an axe yesterday. Hi* excuse is that /for the past few days his head was all m a. whirl,. and there* is no doubt that he had. . been drinking. The . hoy injured has little chance of .recovering, as the brain is protruding. »